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04
Apr

Fallen debris from SpaceX rocket launch lands on a farm in central Washington

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Source: SPACE.com https://tinyurl.com/48vy9t4p A piece of debris from a SpaceX launch has turned up on someone’s farm in central Washington, local authorities reported Friday (April 2) — about one week after the falling rocket debris sparked reports of “shooting stars” the U.S. Pacific Northwest.  According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, the recovered object appears to be […]

03
Apr

Aortic aneurysm disease-Make room for chronobiology

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Lopuszko A, Patrick Tan SZC, Munir W, Bashir M. Aortic aneurysm disease-Make room for chronobiology. J Card Surg. 2021 Apr 2. doi: 10.1111/jocs.15548. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33797793. Abstract Background: Aortic aneurysm (AA) is a common atherosclerotic condition, accounting for nearly 6000 deaths in England and up to 175,000 deaths globally each year. The pathological […]

03
Apr

The Military Is Funding Ethicists to Keep Its Brain Enhancement Experiments in Check

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Source: https://medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/in-the-news/the-military-is-funding-ethicists-to-keep-its-brain-enhancement-experiments-in-check April 1, 2021 From Future Human: The military has long been interested in what medical ethicist Jonathan Moreno calls “the whole supersoldier business” — using technology to produce bionically or pharmaceutically superior warfighters. Moreno, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is interested too. Specifically, in one question that keeps gnawing at him: How […]

01
Apr

The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness

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M Kocifaj, F Kundracik, J C Barentine, S Bará, The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2021;, slab030, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slab030 Abstract The population of artificial satellites and space debris orbiting the Earth imposes non-negligible constraints on both space operations and ground-based optical […]

01
Apr

Satellites contribute significant light pollution to night skies

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Source: Royal Astronomical Society https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/satellites-contribute-significant-light-pollution-night-skies by Robert Massey on Mon, 29/03/2021 Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening night skies on our planet significantly more than previously understood. The research, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, finds that the number of objects orbiting […]

01
Apr

Murray (et al.) v. Motorola (et al.) Defense Seeks To Bar Portier Testimony

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Source: Microwave News https://microwavenews.com/papers/chris-portier-rf-evaluation Excerpt April 1, 2021 Defense Seeks To Bar Portier Testimony As expected, defense lawyers have asked the DC court to not allow Christopher Portier to be an expert witness in this case. In a filing yesterday, the team representing the cell phone industry, argued that, “[A]llowing a new expert four months before the […]

01
Apr

Occupational Exposure to Extremely Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields and Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Results of a Feasibility Study for a Pooled Analysis of Original Data

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Baaken D, Dechent D, Blettner M, Drießen S, Merzenich H. Occupational Exposure to Extremely Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields and Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Results of a Feasibility Study for a Pooled Analysis of Original Data. Bioelectromagnetics. 2021 Mar 25. doi: 10.1002/bem.22335. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33764559. Abstract Previous meta-analyses have suggested an increased risk […]

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Apr

Potential influence of prenatal 2.45 GHz radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure on Wistar albino rat testis.

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Almášiová V, Holovská K, Andrašková S, Cigánková V, Ševčíková Z, Raček A, Andrejčáková Z, Beňová K, Tóth Š, Tvrdá E, Molnár J, Račeková E. Potential influence of prenatal 2.45 GHz radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure on Wistar albino rat testis. Histol Histopathol. 2021 Mar 25:18331. doi: 10.14670/HH-18-331. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33779980. Abstract An ever-increasing […]